"My father and my older brother dug out a giant hole in the backyard and built a bomb shelter in it," he said. John William Vincent Law did have a bomb shelter - with a secret entrance to boot. It was meant as a short term shelter just until the initial fallout lifted, not a long-term living situation."įuncheon didn't know exactly where the house was but said it was close to a house owned by the late country singer Merle Haggard. In it was World War II-style C-rations and cans of water. From the description my mother gave it was buried very deep and had a long creepy stairway down. "(It) was long forgotten then rediscovered fully stocked and infested with rattlesnakes. He never got to see it, but Billy Funcheon said his great-grandparents installed a shelter at their home in Redding. (We lived 6 blocks from Ocean Beach) This was during the Cold War, and he and his wife were kind of strange," Gibson wrote. "He also put a hole in the ceiling and roof and put a ladder up so he could make a lookout for 'Russian ships' that might attack SF. Pat Gibson recalled that his neighbor across the street in the Outer Sunset had a fallout shelter. "He was going to dig a big home in the background," she wrote, but it stayed in their garage "until my Mom made him get rid of it." Vincent, who now lives in Arkansas, but grew up at 22nd Avenue and Judah Street said her dad bought an underground gasoline tank and cut it in four sections in order to get it home. We reached out to readers on the San Francisco Remembered Facebook page to see if anyone grew up in a home with a fallout shelter or recalled friends, relatives or neighbors with shelters. teetered on the brink of thermonuclear war.
Those who did must have wondered in October 1962 if they would soon put them to use as the U.S. Still, Cold War fears did prompt some Bay Area do-it-yourselfers to construct one-room concrete bunkers where they could, at least theoretically, ride out a Soviet attack. Nationally, only 1.4 percent of Americans had their own personal shelter. For another, many single-family residencies lacked basements or adequate room for an underground shelter in their backyards. For one thing, San Francisco and many surrounding cities already had numerous public bomb shelters. How many Bay Area residents actually heeded that advice is not clear.
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